Both sides are not the same


Ha ha HA! Get it?? It's funny because yesterday the Democratic party chairman in Arkansas was gunned down, weeks after a right wing lunatic shot up a liberal church! Ha! Still don't get it? It's really subtle humor, which probably escapes you humorless liberals. Ha!

Anyway, on the real son, far Right wing pundits have spent the past fifteen years or so drilling into their millions of listeners/viewers the idea that all of their problems can be blamed on Liberals, Democrats, and immigrants. And if you were to make some sort of connection between that and people beating and killing Liberals, Democrats and immigrants well, damn son, you'd probably be pretty much clinically insane to think something as ludicrous as that. (h/t TMW)

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Oh and hey, while I'm being flippant and brief, really John McCain? "We are all Georgians?" Really? We all used our military to crush dissent in our own country in a narcissistic attempt to rally possible Western allies to our side, using fears of World War III as blackmail in our own little regional conflict, with the endgame of increasing our international clout? Because I don't remember doing that.

This is what I hate about American politics, punditry and media. Everybody just wants to know "OK, who's the Bad Guys, who's the Good Guys, who's the Liberals, who's the Republicans? Who does Bush like? Who would be played by Harrison Ford in the movie?" It's just like the shit Reagan pulled with The Contras in the 80's, and we were just that dumb then. The simple fact is there aren't any real good guys in my estimation here, and its nowhere near as simple as John McCain or a lot of pundits are making it out to be. But, y'know, "The Great Russian Bear" and all.

It's creepy. It's like watching conservative pundits get drunk and call their old girlfriends, but it's live on national television and it's embarrassing for everyone.